[September 13, 2023] It is so easy to become overwhelmed by the state of the world, to turn away from the reality we live in this year, and next. But our tradition forbids it. We are called to look ourselves in the mirror, individually and collectively…
Please make a gift to Hazon today. Every dollar received by the end of the year will be directly invested into our growing programs and deepening our impact. December 30,…
Thursday, August 26, 2021 | 18 Elul 5781 Nigel: Hi! Jakir: Shalom! You did it! I’m not sure how you pulled it off, but you made it to the holy…
Friday, August 20, 2021 | 12 Elul 5781 Dear All, I admit that I am baffled by Jeopardy!, and why people care about it. (What’s wrong with University Challenge?) But…
Friday, August 13, 2021 | 5 Elul 5781 Dear All, The second day of the 2005 Israel Ride was on Thursday, May 12th. The day before we had ridden from…
Friday, August 6, 2021 | 28 Av 5781 Dear All, You might think this email would for me be easy and obvious. But it has been the hardest one…
Thursday, July 29, 2021 | 20 Av 5781 Dear All, There was the first time I went on this thing called Facebook. It asked my religion, so I wrote…
Thursday, July 22, 2021 | 13 Av 5781 One big idea – and a few smaller ones. Dear All, First: gratitude. I don’t take anyone’s gift to Hazon for granted. (If…
By Helen Chernikoff | eJewish Philanthropy Savage is ‘wildly in favor’ of the merger between Hazon and the Pearlstone Retreat Center In 2000, Nigel Savage founded Hazon, an early Jewish…
Thursday, July 15, 2021 | 6 Av 5781 Dear All, As I step down as CEO, this is the first of seven emails, reflecting on a range of different topics,…
July 8, 2021 | 28 Tammuz 5781 Dear All, Here’s the statement that Hazon & Pearlstone have just released. All the rest (of this email) is commentary… I’m stepping…
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | 14 Sivan 5781 Dear All, Many of the arguments that divide contemporary Jewish life come down to different readings of what it means to…
Please enjoy this week’s video newsletter message. Full text transcript is below. We were thinking we might try and send out some videos as well as just written words,…
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 24th day of the omer – tiferet she’b’netzach Dear All, Tomorrow is Earth Day, and there’s lots happening. I hope you will attend some of the many…
Thursday, April 8, 2021 | netzach she’b’gevurah Dear All, It’s Earth Day two weeks from today. This prompts me to think about Earth Day as the secular equivalent of one of…
March 18, 2021 | 5 Nissan 5781 Dear All, The whole world we live in, right now, is “both/and” rather than “either/or.” Everything happens simultaneously. Everything and its opposite is…